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The Beatles – Words of Love
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This is a cover of “Words of Love” by the late Buddy Holly, originally released in February 1958—the same year that The Quarrymen formed back in Liverpool.
John Lennon was an avid
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Buddy Holly – Words of Love
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[Verse 1] / Hold me close and tell me how you feel / Tell me love is real / Mm, mm, mm, mm / [Chorus] / Words of love you whisper soft and true / Darling I love you / Mm, mm, mm
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The Beatles – Words of Love (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Hold me close and tell me how you feel / Tell me love is real / Mm / [Verse 2] / Words of love you whisper soft and true / Darling, I love you / Mm / [Instrumental
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The Beatles – Words Of Love (EP)
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Hold me close and tell me how you feel / Tell me love is real / Words of love you whisper soft and true / Darling I love you / Let me hear you say the words I long to hear
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The Beatles – In My Life
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“In My Life” is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The song originated with Lennon, and while McCartney contributed to the final version, the extent
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The Beatles – And I Love Her
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The Beatles began recording “And I Love Her” on 25 February, 1964. They recorded two takes that day, with a full electric line-up, but it was evidently not the sound they were
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Buddy Holly – Words of Love Covers
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See all of “Words of Love” by Buddy Holly’s covers
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The Beatles – Can't Buy Me Love
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A number-one hit single for The Beatles, primarily written by Paul McCartney, “Can’t Buy Me Love” was one of their favorite live cuts back in the heyday of Beatlemania. Its
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The Beatles – The End
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…And then, the perfect capper, finishing with a song called “The End”, which features alternating guitar solos from John, George, and Paul and a drum solo from Ringo. It was an
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The Beatles – Let It Be
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One of The Beatles' many iconic ballads, written by McCartney. The level of repetition in the lyrics suggests this song was written quickly and through emotional inspiration
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The Beatles – The Word
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Well, it’s pretty self-evident what this song is about: THE WORD – LOVE!
Fun trivia: after finishing this song, Lennon and McCartney got incredibly high and scrawled the lyrics to
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The Beatles – All You Need Is Love
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Originally a non-album single that ultimately ended up on the Magical Mystery Tour album, “All You Need is Love” was created for and performed on Our World, the first live
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The Beatles – Yesterday
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“Yesterday” is the most covered song in history, with over 2,000 versions having been recorded. A spare, haunting song of lost love from the early Beatles catalog, it was sung
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Buddy Holly – Words of Love Samples
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See all of “Words of Love” by Buddy Holly’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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The Beatles – Love Me Do
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The Beatles' first single and track one, side two of Please Please Me. When it was recorded as a single, three different drummers were used. A version with Pete Best (the original
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The Beatles – It's Only Love
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The Beatles recorded “It’s Only Love” during an afternoon session on June 15, 1965. It took six takes to get right, though only four of those were complete. Its original working
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The Beatles – Something
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“Something” is the first George Harrison penned track on Abbey Road. It is hailed as one of the greatest love songs of all time by Frank Sinatra, who mistakenly introduced it in
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The Beatles – Eight Days a Week
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“Eight Days a Week” was originally issued in 1964 as a single from Beatles for Sale. However, it wasn’t released in the US until 1965. It came out in advance of the 1965 album
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The Beatles – You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
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“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” is the third track on The Beatles' album Help!. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, they both said that Lennon was influenced by Bob
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The Beatles – Across the Universe
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In a 1970 interview, Lennon referred to this song as:
[…] one of the best lyrics I’ve written. In fact, it could be the best. It’s good poetry, or whatever you call it, without
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Genius English Translations – Lamp - 愛の言葉 (Ai no Kotoba/Words of Love) (English Translation)
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The night comes quietly / It talks to me softly / Let's whisper the words of love / The city colored faintly, as the round moon rises / The winter breeze outside the swaying window
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The Beatles – Now and Then
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“Now And Then” was originally a demo written and recorded in 1977 by former Beatles' member John Lennon. It is the final song released under the name of The Beatles, featuring
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The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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Written and sung by George Harrison, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is considered one of the Beatles' masterpieces.
Rolling Stone ranked it #10 in their “100 Best Beatles Songs
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The Beatles (Ft. George Martin) – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (LOVE Version)
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[Verse 1: George Harrison] / I look at you all / See the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / I look at the floor / And I see it needs sweeping / Still my
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The Beatles – Michelle
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A McCartney song inspired by a comical faux-French ballad he used to busk in the streets when he was a teenager in order to attract women and make his friends laugh. Paul asked
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The Beatles – Here, There and Everywhere
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Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney from the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver.
A simple love song and Mojo Magazine’s 4th best song ever written, “Here, There And Everywhere
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George Harrison – Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
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“Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) is the lead single from George Harrison’s 1973 album "Living in the Material World.”
In George’s 1980 autobiography “I, Me, Mine,” he talked
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The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby
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“Eleanor Rigby” is a song about loneliness and depression representing a departure from their early pop love songs.
This is an early example of the Beatles taking risks and
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The Beatles – I Feel Fine
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“I Feel Fine,” written primarily by John Lennon, was released as a single in 1964, with “She’s a Woman” as the B side.
Interestingly, the song features one of the first uses of
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The Beatles – P.S. I Love You
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Track two, side two of Please Please Me and the b-side to the single release of Love Me Do.
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The Beatles – Don't Let Me Down
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The B-side for the single “Get Back” was recorded in 1969. “Don’t Let Me Down” had multiple versions, but the most famous one was performed live on the roof of Apple Records
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The Beatles – I'm a Loser
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“I’m a Loser,” written primarily by John Lennon, is track two on Beatles For Sale. They almost released it as a single, but opted for “I Feel Fine” instead.
Barry Miles' Beatles
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The Beatles – All My Loving
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Unusually for McCartney, the lyrics to All My Loving came before the music.
It was the first song I’d ever written the words first. I never wrote words first, it was always some
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The Beatles – I Saw Her Standing There
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Track one, side one of Please Please Me.
Now considered a rock'n'roll standard covered by everyone from Pharrell Williams to Led Zeppelin, it was originally titled Seventeen as
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The Beatles – With a Little Help from My Friends
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Seamlessly transitioning from the first track on Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, “With A Little Help From My Friends” features lead vocals from drummer Ringo Starr as his Sgt
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The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
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A dry-witted story of a man who failed to charm his love interest into bed, and how he got his revenge in an extreme (and sociopathic) way.
Norwegian Wood is my song completely
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The Beatles – Do You Want to Know a Secret
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“Do You Want to Know a Secret” is track four, side two of the band’s first album, Please Please Me. Whilst originally penned by Lennon-McCartney, George Harrison takes lead vocal.
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The Beatles – Come Together
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“Come Together” is the opening track to Abbey Road, written by John Lennon and to be used as a campaign song for famed LSD enthusiast Timothy Leary, who was running for Governor of
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